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Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council Draft Report is available at this website: http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/56095.html
The Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council has released the draft report Our Great Lakes Water Resources: Conserving and Protecting
Our Water Today for Use Tomorrow. This draft report offers recommendations to Governor Paterson and the NYS Legislature in response to the directive issued to the Council by the New York State Legislature in approving the ratifying legislation of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (the Compact) in 2008.
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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (Source: http://www.great-lakes.net/infocenter/restoration.html )
Early in 2009, President Obama released his proposed budget
for Fiscal Year 2010 which includes a Great Lakes Resto- ration
Initiative. The Initiative will accelerate Great Lakes restoration
by investing $475 million to confront some of the most serious
threats to the region, including invasive species, nonpoint source
pollution and toxic sediments. The Initia- tive represents a
significant down payment on a multiyear effort to fully implement
the Great Lakes Regional Collabora- tion restoration strategy. An
investment in Great Lakes restoration will help with other efforts
to reinvigorate the economy of a region especially hard hit by
recent downturns in the global economy. In the Great Lakes region,
freshwater and access to the lakes are intertwined with economic
activity and are fundamental to our future. The Brookings
Institution has estimated that imple- menting the Great Lakes
Regional Collaboration Strategy will generate $50 billion in
long-term benefits.
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Great Lakes Coalition 5th Annual Great Lakes Restoration Conference (Source: http:// www.healthylakes.org/09conference/ )
The Healing Our WatersŪ-Great Lakes Coalition will come together on the shores of Lake Superior to reunite with friends, celebrate our successes, and develop strategies to achieve our Great Lakes restoration goals for 2010 and be- yond.
The conference agenda will address critical issues such as linking Great Lakes restoration to economic recovery, working with the Obama administration to fulfill the $5 billion Great Lakes commitment, and securing Congressional funding for on the ground restoration work.
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by Susan Stinson
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